Justice committee  It's hard to know where to begin. I started to look more deeply into the question of conversion therapy when I was invited to give a statement to your colleagues at the Standing Committee on Health who were undertaking a historic study on LGBTQ2 health last spring. I said to th

Justice committee  Based on the survey I was talking about earlier, I think we get halfway there.... For some people, yes, the services they experienced were framed as being about that second part of the definition, which is to repress or reduce non-heterosexual attraction or sexual behaviour. That

Justice committee  I'll just elaborate on what I said in my statement, which is that I think people become susceptible to these practices when they're in an environment where LGBTQ2 identities are not recognized or affirmed. I think what this bill does is to bring further clarity to parts of Canad

Justice committee  Absolutely. One of the nearly universal, most common harms was loss of personal relationships with family of origin, and also loss of opportunities to create romantic and sexual connections, in the case of sexual orientation, with people with whom they could have otherwise connec

Justice committee  Absolutely. Thank you for your question. I echo your committee members in thanking Mr. Sanchez and Mr. Keslick for bringing their stories here. My job as a public health researcher is to talk about threats to groups of people, to populations and to the public. What our researc

Justice committee  Absolutely. I, along with several of my colleagues, will be submitting a brief with all of these recommendations. There are three components of the definition that I believe need to be amended, two of which you've already heard about. That is the addition of “gender expression”

Justice committee  Thank you, Madam Chair, for having me here today. I use he/him pronouns. I am joining you from the unceded Coast Salish territories of Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish and Musqueam nations, and I'm grateful to them. I want to start by humbly acknowledging outspoken Canadian advocates